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I'll never understand it. If you look at the places that suburbanites visit - the vacations they take, none of those places look like the ones they live in. P
by Pxtl 5y ago
I'll never understand it. If you look at the places that suburbanites visit - the vacations they take, none of those places look like the ones they live in. Paris. Manhattan. Smaller locations like Niagara Falls still represents a level of age and density far beyond suburbia.
Heck, even Vegas represents a level of density when you think about the fact that nobody's visiting the sprawl.
It's like we know what nice places look and feel like, but choose to build the exact opposite because of parking convenience.
- baggy_trough 5y agoJust because I might like to visit Disneyland doesn't mean I want to live there.
- pwinnski 5y agoHave you never heard the common English expression, "It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there?"
- hungryforcodes 5y agoYou mean suburbia? Yes, I know.
- baggy_trough 5y agoThen it's great that we have different options for people who have different preferences!
- rufus_foreman 5y agoYou find suburbia a nice place to visit as a non-resident?
- hungryforcodes 5y agoYes, when people have nice BBQs.
- josephcsible 5y agoPeople like having yards for their kids to play in and not sharing walls with neighbors. And people visit campsites with no running water, but obviously it would be bad to live somewhere with no running water.
- sokoloff 5y agoThis is one of those truths that is so obvious to me and simultaneously puzzling that others don't see it as obviously the preference of many people. I have hated every shared-wall/ceiling/floor accommodation I've ever lived in, even fairly high-end newish construction. (I hated the idea that my noise was annoying others almost as much as the times when their noise annoyed me. In my house, if I want to do a woodworking project, listen to Van Halen, or watch a movie at 10:30 PM, I'm free to do that.) I love having outdoor space that's "just ours". If we want to plant a garden, we plant a garden. If we want flowers, we plant flowers. If we want a trampoline, we buy a trampoline.
- bombcar 5y agoOne thing to remember is that houses in dense older cities in Europe are often built of stone or brick or concrete (even the newer ones) which results in a building with different properties than what we’re used to with out stick built apartments. And they often have a garden/yard area. What’s sad is that we don’t really even have the option in the USA for that style.
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- micromacrofoot 5y agoLook at tourists attitudes of many of those areas; they glamorize them to an extent, but they'll also warn you to watch out for pickpockets and wear security wallets. They don't want to live there, it's an amusement park.
- MattRix 5y agoSuburbia is made of families. People want big houses with big yards for their kids. They’re often not bringing their kids on those same vacations. And on top of that, where people vacation is very different from where they’d want to live long term.
- Pxtl 5y agoThere's actually a perverse impact, because young people can't drive. So moving to suburbia for "the kids" results in kids being isolated from their community. And remember, vehicular traffic is the 2nd highest cause of death in children in the USA, after birth defects.
- lelandbatey 5y agoI'd rather have a medium house with big safe parks. Growing up out in the woods is great, but having kids who are trapped with no autonomy hurts kids in a way I'd like to avoid.
- foobiekr 5y agoAs a kid, we’d bike 5. 10, 15 miles to other towns. We did not lack autonomy.